Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-07-14
MISS wILLARp's LECTURE.

woman clerk OF the school board.
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MISS wILLARD's LECTURE.
Continuing the argument against high
license and as an instance showing the
mean principals of liquor and high
license men, Mrs Willard mentioned her
reception at one of the towns in North
ern Michigan during her work for the
recent temperance success in that state.
She said she never before was treated so
badly. The date of her coming to the
town had been announced, whereupOn the
high license men secured the only large
audience room in the town. and appoint
ed meeting. She said when ] arrived,
all could do was to go to that hall,
and all they would do was to give me
forty minutes to say what had TO say.
After had talked on the duty of the
voter to the home; on his duty to vote
according to his conscience and percep-
ton of right, they took vote on high
licenss and gave the majority in favor of
high licensd. Ali 1t is n juggling with
words and in the interest of the jug
every time. (Applause)
The high license men ask, wouldn't
you rather have half loaf, than no
breadP We answer, no, not if that half
is poisoned. There is reason with us
for prohibition and against high license.
DO want to stand in with the license
of inurdcrp They ask. would you not
choose the lesser evilP No. | never
would choose an evil. This misleading
cry of high license is setting back the
cause. II is sin. You get better
looking saloons; but the more you lrow
the moths and SINCE their poor wings.
They claim that they get better looking
saloons and money TO build sidewalks!
All these are outside facts. | look inside
the doors. | see the man behind the
counter, the man before the counter, the
| glasses, the drunkenness, the misery, see
these, the inside facts. There Is as
much drunkenness under high license as
under low Statistics don't show any
decrease under high license-no less
poverty, no less wife-beating. These
are legitimate arguments. The only
kind of high we do want is Prohibition
| TO the individual voter, must OK.
plain that he stands In one of four po-
sitions on the liquor traffic. He is
ignorant of it: he is apathetc toward
it: he is in completely with it: or he is
in open protest against it. No intclli-
gent man can be ignorant Of it,
Is it apathy? We cannot believe that
men are Indifferent to what makes women
mourn, you, my brother are not insen-
sible to that which wrings the hearts of
women. You know the saloon keeper
succeeds by the ruin of boys. Tho saloon
keeper leads the boy on and on, until he
brings ruin to the boy, the home and
the hearts of women. through this great
curse of liquor. You are surely not
apathetic toward snch startling facts.
You surely realize
There Is no flock however wateTei and Tended,
But one dead lamb Is there
There lie no ffeside howsoever defended
Bat hae one vacant chair!
think no voter of good purpose de-
sircs to vote in direct completely with
the liquor traffic. Still do hold a ligh
license vote in direct completely. All
men recognize that gambling hou G. are
terrible curses. The license aids the
business. come to respectable voter
and ask, Would you vote to license II
gambling house in your city, Would
you vote to license saloons? The sa-
loon is the home of gambling. The city
fathers claim by the license to ha'nilc
the business judiciously, as though the
word judicious came from Judas. Vo-
tiers for high license take. exactly the
position that saloon Keepers want III, m
to take. In Michigan they put in the
same ballot ] see no half way position
in the matter. II you vote for high
license you arc particept criminis in a
business by which you prosper. Tiink
of the cost of penitentiaries, pau; crs
and criminals. You pay out money for
all these, like which license money is
like the dust of the ballot toward the
ingot of the treasury.
High license mon and other men asked
to be in open protest against the liquor
traffic, ask, Docs Prohibition prohibit
We ask, Does high license regulate?
Nothing is so hard to enforce as the
license law. You know that boys are
made drunk. violating the laws relating
to minors. and the saloon keepers go
scot free.
We ask, DO you think civilization
civilizes? You may read of atrocities
that ought to make Zulu blush.
Does education educate? Does chris
tianity christianize? We hear some say,
Look at us. We look and feel certain
that christianity christianizes, but we
realize that we see only the leaven Of
the lump and the lump is very large.
Prohibition is the youngest and fair''st
philanthropy. The arguRent IS with
us, with US every time. Prohibition
does prohibit. In fifty-dve counties in
Iowa not criminal was arrested in
whole year under Prohibition. In Maine
with thirty years experience in PrOhi-
bition," the conditions are $50 much
better" they have voted it into the state
constitution by the largest vote ever
given in that state. Look at Maine and
Kentuckey.s see what Prohibition has done
for Maine; study the matter. We have
God and humanity and brotherhood on
on our side.
Thou shalt not tempt thy brother TO
his ruin.
(1o be continucd.)
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